FirePro S9010 vs Quadro K6000

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking263not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.24no data
Power efficiency6.37no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK110BTahiti
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date23 July 2013 (11 years ago)24 August 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,265 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores28801792
Core clock speed797 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed902 MHzno data
Number of transistors7,080 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate216.589.60
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS2.867 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs240112

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount12 GB3 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.4 GB/s240.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA3.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 July 2013 24 August 2012
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 3 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 200 Watt

Quadro K6000 has an age advantage of 10 months, and a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

FirePro S9010, on the other hand, has 12.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K6000 and FirePro S9010. We've got no test results to judge.


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